Suspending device



UNITED STATES PATENT Orrrce.

GEORGE XV. MCGILL, OF RIVERDALE, NEXV YORK.

SUSPENDING DEVICE.

EPEGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 337,970, dated March 16,1886.

(No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. MoGILL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Riverdale, in the city and county of New York, State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Suspending Devices, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of the same, and to the fig ures of reference marked thereon, in which the same numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The object of my invention is to produce a cheap and strong device for suspending or hanging cards, calendars, pictures, or other prints, &c., upon nails, hooks, rods, &c.; and it consists in a metal loop or hook attached by a hinge-connection with an adhesive at taching-tablet of paper, cotton cloth, linen, or linen-backed paper, or other suitable material, the latter adapted to be attached to a card or other print to be suspended by means of a coating of mucilage or other adhesive material, and in manner to admit of the metal loop or hook being turned or closed down on or over the card or print, to allow the same to be neatly and safely packed for transportation, or to be mailed.

My improvement consists in a novel and peculiar form given the adhesive attaching tablet to enable it to be readily connected with its metal loop or hook and to lock them to gether.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents the adhesive attaching-tablet. Figs. 2 and 3 rep resent forms of metal loops of the device. Fig. 4 is a view in perspective of the adhesive attaching-tablet and metal loop connected together as intended and ready to be applied. Fig. 5 is a front view of the device, showing its loop turned or closed down. Fig. 6 represents the device applied to a card, I), or other print. Fig. 7 is a vertical sectional view of the device so applied, taken on line 00 00 of Fig. 6; and Fig. 8 is a View similar to Fig. 6, excepting that the upper part of the metal loop is fashioned in hook form instead of ring form.

The paper or other material from which the attaching-tablet is out has one of its surfaces treated with a coating of suitable adhesive materialsuch as mucilage, glue, gum, &c. which is dried thereon, and which, by moistening or heating, will become adhesive or sticky, and admitof the tablet being attached to other papers and such like articles by pressing it thereon. This tablet or attaching part of the device is cut in T form-that is, having a top part, 1, and a body part, 2.

The metal loop or hook is made from a single piece of suitable wire terminating in abottom oblong eye, 5, each end of the wire forming part of such eye.

The body part 2 of the attaching-tablet may be of any length desired, but in width it is somewhat less than the width or length of the inside of the eye 5 of the metal loop, and is provided with ears or barbs 4 4-one on each side near its connection with the top part 1, toward which the broad part of these barbs face. The body part 2 is preferably pointed at its free end, and the tablet and loop are connected together by running the body part 1 of the tablet through the eye 5 of the loop, which latter is forced over the barbs 4 4 onto the intermediate neck, 3, where it is held by the barbs 4 4, as shown in the drawings.

In running the barbed body part 2 of the attaching-tablet through the eye of the metal loop, the barbs 4 4 spring the eye open in their passage through it, and the resilience of the wire closes the eye after such passage. The metal loop and its adhesive tablet are by this construction and arrangement held together in position for ready use.

The device is applied by moistening or heating the adhesive surface of the tablet and pasting its top part, 1, on a card or other article to be suspended just below its top margin and folding the body part 2 over the top of such card and pasting it to the opposite side of the samein manner to bringthe intermediate neck, 3, of the tablet and the wire loop above the card, as shown in the drawings. The loop is thus held above the card by a hinge-connection with the tablet, which admit-s of its being turned or closed down on the same, when desired, for transportation, &c., of the card, as shown in Fig. 5.

The adhesive material may be applied to the tablet after the latter is cut from its stock; but the better plan is to first prepare the stock with a coating of it, as hereinbefore described.

YVhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a suspending device consisting of the In testimony that I claim the foregoing I wire loop and T-shaped adhesive tablet herein hereunto affix my signature in the presence of described, the body part 2 of the tablet, protwo witnesses.

vided with barbs 4 4, adapted to spring open GEORGE W. MOGILL. 5 the eye of the wire 100p and to hold the loop ,Witnesses:

on the tablet-neck 3, substantiaily'as and for H. G. ADAMS,

the purposes herein set forth. W; R. N01 

